cyabgcommented: One can get negative and paint a dark gloomy future. Easy to do. The President has done what he could and America is on tract: unemployment is lower, stock market…
Gen Y: How Romney can get the young vote
More voters aged 18 to 29 are starting to pay a little more attention to Romney and less to Obama. Can Romney capitalize on this in the final days of his campaign?
Nov 1, 2012 5:32 PM
cyabgcommented: With all the votes against health care, votes against voting rights, against immigration nationwide, you think the middle class would vote for those in congress…
House likely to stay in GOP hands on Election Day
Democrats and Republicans are spending millions of dollars and airing thousands of TV commercials as they battle for the House's 435 seats. But the Election Day result…
Oct 1, 2012 6:22 PM
cyabgcommented: Since 1995 the Republicans have controlled State legislatures. What has happend since then? Texas is ranked last at just about everything important to all citizens.…
Democrats aim to mobilize Hispanic vote
State Reps. Trey Martinez Fischer and Ana Hernandez Luna unveiled the One Texas PAC, with Martinez Fisher pledging to match the first $50,000 in donations.
Jul 29, 2012 5:02 PM
cyabgcommented: The land of the uninsured is against the Affordable Healthcare Act? Why? Because the Democarts passed the law without Republican support. All politics. The law is constitutional.…
Texas reaction to health care ruling
Reaction to the
U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on the national health care ruling in Texas falls along party lines.
Jul 1, 2012 11:14 AM
cyabgcommented: Check out Dewhurst Senate race campaign ad where he says he will help balance the federal budget like the Republican Party did in Texas? Cut it to the bone he says.…
Perry endorses Dewhurst in Senate race
Texas
Gov. Rick Perry says he's supporting Lt.
Gov. David
Dewhurst in the Republican primary for the
U.S. Senate.
Apr 30, 2012 6:59 PM
cyabgcommented: This fixation against abortion by the Republican Party must not be overlooked by women everywhere whose basic healthcare is being threatened. Remember them November 2012.…
Judge sides with Planned Parenthood
A federal judge in Austin has stopped Texas from banning Planned Parenthood from participating in the state's Women's Health Program.
Apr 30, 2012 6:44 PM
cyabgcommented: Hospital costs have gone through the roof. Insurance premiums go up so that the bills are covered. Who is driving up the cost of healthcare? It is not the insurance companies.…
Misunderstanding on health overhaul?
A possible misunderstanding about President Barack Obama's health care overhaul could cloud Supreme Court deliberations on its fate, leaving the impression that the…
Apr 15, 2012 8:32 AM
cyabgcommented: Women, teachers and state workers have their own thoughts on what the legislature's agenda should be. For one thing it will be an agenda that makes Texas the Great State…
2013 Lege priorities becoming clear
The Texas Legislature may not return to work for another 11 months, but that hasn't kept the state's leadership from signaling what it thinks will be the big issues…
Mar 9, 2012 5:37 PM
cyabgcommented: With unemployment numbers coming down, the Republicans will divide and confuse voters arguing about social issues. Their message on the economy has lost momentum for now.…
Social issues overtake US politics
All of a sudden, abortion, contraception and gay marriage are at the center of American political discourse, with the struggling — though improving — economy pushed…
Feb 11, 2012 8:59 AM
cyabgcommented: What did voters expect when they gave the Rublicans a super majority: new redistricting maps that discriminated against Hispancis, new voter ID law, anti abortion sonogram,…
Judges skeptical in redistrict case
Three federal judges weighing the legality of Texas' new political maps reacted with skepticism Tuesday when the state's lawyer said the intent of the new boundaries…
Republican Rick Perry is Governor of Texas. Two Republicans represent Texas in the U.S. Senate, and Texas has 32 representatives in the U.S. House: 20 Republicans and 12 Democrats.
